Episode 118 || The Other Mother

From the Front Porch

Annie and Chris talk about "alternative" visions of motherhood for Mother's Day this year, and it takes a weirdly dark turn. Sorry. Get a sneak peek at Chris's fall Women in Literature class and hear some of Annie's favorite mom-centric books. Chris's class books: + Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel + Pregnant Butch by A. K. Summers + Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu + Beloved by Toni Morrison + The Babadook *CORRECTION: The quote from Beloved is "You your own best thing, Sethe," not "You your best self," as previously reported. Some of Annie's favorites: + Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The Color of Water by James McBride + Rabbit Cake by Annie Harnett + Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan + A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson + This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + French Milk by Lucy Knisley And please, are there good mother/son novels out there that don't have any sort of implied incest theme? Let me know. I need to know. 

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Annie and Chris talk about "alternative" visions of motherhood for Mother's Day this year, and it takes a weirdly dark turn. Sorry. Get a sneak peek at Chris's fall Women in Literature class and hear some of Annie's favorite mom-centric books. Chris's class books: + Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel + Pregnant Butch by A. K. Summers + Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu + Beloved by Toni Morrison + The Babadook *CORRECTION: The quote from Beloved is "You your own best thing, Sethe," not "You your best self," as previously reported. Some of Annie's favorites: + Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + The Color of Water by James McBride + Rabbit Cake by Annie Harnett + Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan + A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson + This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + French Milk by Lucy Knisley And please, are there good mother/son novels out there that don't have any sort of implied incest theme? Let me know. I need to know. 

2017-05-11 32 min
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